~~HEAVEN~~

Or atleast my little slice of it.......

I am currently sitting at the picnic table outside the trailer at Newport and it is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I can not believe how nice it is over here, especially after all the rain we have had recently.
This is our first camping trip of the year, kinda a spur of the moment. The kids were done with school on Thursday, we had no baseball this weekend, so why not, let's go camping.

woke up to clear blue beautiful skies, no fog. It did get a little chilly last night (boys were in the tent) but other than some wind, I can't complain.
The boys got up this morning about 5:30 and went to Waldport and went clamming, I stayed here with the dogs hehe. They ended up with about 50 steamer clams, and right now they are off surf perch fishing, so we know for sure having clams for dinner and if no fish, then we are going to town to buy oysters YUMM

It is a rough life camping, I think gunner looks a little too relaxed, had to ruin that peace and quiet after I took the pic. And of course we eat healthy when we are camping (this is a no weight watchers weekend). They are enjoying hash browns, bacon, eggs and nothing quite says breakfast like an ice cold Mtn Dew.
Went to the beach and let the kids and dogs run, had to fly the kite for awhile and then the kids got cold. The Carribean waters this is not!!

That is about all we have accomplished so far, just kicking back and enjoying the nice quiet sunshine. (I was almost asleep in the lounge chair until a damnn crow made noise) Oh well, I would have got a sunburn anyways!

Gunner's Soon to be Big Adenture....

Funny how things happen and how opportunities can present themselves. I am not sure exactly how it started (ummm, I think Margaritas were involved though), but Gunner is going to have the pleasure/privilege of driving with some friends from Oregon to Alaska. He gets to participate in the first part of "North to Alaska....The Kephart's Adventure (http://kephartsinalaska.blogspot.com/).
Nichole, who I used to work with hehe, and her husband Deven are moving to Fairbanks Alaska in about 2 weeks. They decided to drive, in their RV, with 2 dogs and now 2 teenage boys, to see the scenary. Deven asked Gunner if he wanted to......well that was like asking a little kid if they wanted candy, DUH!! He was allll over that one!He is wanting to start packing now!! Soo, we had to work on passports (and still have some details to work out), but got an email this morning, passport is processed and will be here this week. So, Nichole and Deven that was your last escape route, he is yours now, well for about 3 weeks anyways because you do have to return him to his mommy :D, I am kinda attached.

It should be alot of fun for him, it is a trip that he may not have had a chance to do otherwise. I know I am extremely jealous! and wish I was going. I hope he enjoys it and gets to see some awesome sights along the way and he better bring home ALOT of pictures! He will fly home around the middle of July, just in time for Linn County Fair, but hopefully they will have some time to do some fishing and whatever else they decide to do. (He is becoming quite the little traveler!)
Unfortunately for Drake, he is unable to make the trip, he is right in the middle of baseball and as much as he would like to go to Alaska (was he invited? :D) he has a commitment to his team. I am sure though, that he will not be deprived while his brother is gone. We have atleast 2 camping/fishing trips planned during that time.....My poor deprived kids, that never get to do anything or go anywhere!!!! YEAH RIGHT!!!

Anyways, that is the latest at the Harrison's.........

~a whole lotta whine!!~

Rain, Rain go away (come back in January) I am sooooo tired of the rain, I just want it to go away. I need some warmth and sun and sand and sun and relaxing and sun, ok just need SUN. This would work (but still have 6 months to go ARGH!)

Wish I was camping, this is the first Memorial Day weekend we have been home in a LONG time. Usually we are camping or at a baseball tourney but this year we are spending a quiet weekend at home. Did get to go see Sex and the City (the movie ya pervs) w/Nichole, pretty good, liked it better than the first. Was a good day, especially the ColdStone. Mark has been getting a few honey do's done, but not all, because, really, do they ever end?

Baseball has still been pretty all consuming. Gunner is done, they ended up 12-7, not a bad record for Freshman team (he only had 3 errors all season, started all 19 games and maintained a 4.00 gpa). He is not playing this summer, so that will/should free up some time for us to go camping and fishing. Now he needs to concentrate on making sure that his pig "Chewy" makes weight for fair (took her leftover mexican today, that should make her tasty!)

Drake has started league games, so far they are 4-0 and doing awesome. He had a great game the other night, obviously they won. He had 3 throws down to 2nd base and got 2 of the 3 runners out who were trying to steal. Not to shabby for a little twig boy!!
Can't believe there is only about 8 days of school left, sooo ready for summer weather and camping and fishing and sun and bbq's and water parks, ok you get the idea, enough whining....

Wish I was here, although, the day this was taken it was about 95 degrees out, but who cares, I was cammping..........(Pretty sad, we have not even had the trailer out yet this year, but we are going in 2 weeks and have some trips planned this summer, can't wait)

Yes he was trying to drink my beer. He would come right up in our laps and eat nuts, he was evening sitting on Mark's arm and eating from his hand, he was kinda pissed though when we ran out of pistachio's.

Crazinessssssss.........

Story of my life. It is so true,that the only thing that stays the same is change.....

Well for starters, I GOT THE QUILT DONE....here is a pic of the quilt I made for Cory and Rachelle I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. Of course, little procrastinator delivered it to the church at 1:30, wedding was at 4:00 (i had a slight hangover, more about that later). The wedding was beautiful..good job to everyone who worked on it. Here is a pic of some adorable kids all dressed up for the wedding.

Friday was gunner's last freshman baseball game, kinda bittersweet, but he looks very handsome in his uniform. Nicole had her last softball game in Lebanon so Missy and her family was there. Then Nichole, Deven ad KayDee showed up, so after the game we all went out fof dinner. Well Nichole and Deven just found that his promotion was pretty much a done deal and they were moving to Alaska. Well we had some drinks to celebrate and to make a long story short, I ended up home at 3:00 AM. Let me tell you, I am too old for that shit....(this was taken still early in the evening OY!) and yes, to quote Missy "Hell has frozen over" atleast for the evening :D

Drake starts league play this week, 1st game was tonight. Stomped Sweet Home 19-3 (Here is a link to a website that has all of drake's games and there are even stats on there http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=lebanon_jbo, Drake is Junior American), hopefully this is the beginning of a good season.

I am sure there is more to post about, but I am getting tired and not typing so well on this little keyboard, laying in bed.....

How did that happen....

How and when did they all grow up. Gunner and Nicole both had baseball/softball games at Lebanon (Lebanon Freshman won baseball, YEAH!) and so Missy came over and watched the last inning of Gunner's game and Nicole came over when she was done. As we are sitting there Mark mentions that we are sitting at the high school watching OUR kids play high school ball, unbelieveable.

Even if they are getting all grownup, they are still a good looking group of kids. I think we did alright!!! (Tyler had baseball practice so he wasn't there).

Can you believe they are both Freshman? and their Freshman year is almost over.
They are just too darn cute!!! Even with Scarface on the end......

Can't tell we are related can you? We don't look NOTHING alike!! (Although I think I need to sit in the sun w/o sunglasses. It is only May I already have some serious coon eyes!)

We Are The Champions!!!

A good Mother's Day!! Drake's baseball team took 1st place today in the tournament we hosted in Lebanon. Yesterday we beat Newberg 19-3, then lost to Central (Monmouth) 3-5 in the afternoon. Came in this morning and beat McKay (Salem) 7-5, then played the championship game against Central (yes, team lost to yesterday) and SPANKED them, 13-0.......
Good Day of Baseball!! Very proud of the boys......

~Happy Mother's Day~

This may be a long post, this is what happens when you don't update very often (Ok, don't have time to update very often!)

First I want to say Happy Mother's Day to one and all!! Hope it is a good one!

My weekend did not start out so good. We are on our 4th tournament weekend in a row for Drake and when the weather has cooperated, we have had games thru the week for Gunner. Further more, I must have pissed off Karma again, because man oh man, last week was a bitch!!

Started off with, we were in Medford last weekend, things did not go well, not even going to post info about it. I took Monday off thinking we would get home late from the tourne and my plan was to work on the quilts for the wedding (Oh darn, the pic still didn't work Michelle!) Well, the quilts are too big for my frame and then to make the frame bigger, well, I don't have enough room in my house. So, needless to say, the weddings are next weekend and I still do not have the quilts done.........hmmmm, PROBLEM!!! (Still working on solution!)

So, back to work on Tuesday and things just progressed downhill from there cumulating in a MAJOR mommy meltdown on Thursday night (Not worth posting details). Friday was going to be hectic, Mark's sister and her husband were coming in from Missouri to visit his mom. Gunner had a game at Crescent Valley and Mark was planning on going because he has not seen hardly any of Gunner's games (They ended up losing in the bottom of the 9th by 1, we usually play 7. Gunner had a good game, made a nice tag at 2nd, it was sweet!) ("Oh, no, you are not going to steal 3rd!!", not from Friday, but still a game pic of G).

Well, Drake had to go to the Varsity game, mandatory, so we were playing the kid shuffle and ended up with 2 cars in Corvallis. End of the game, Mark heads to Lebanon to get Drake so he can meet me and Gunner in Albany at his mom's. (Extra innings means Gunner and I left the field, in Corvallis about 7:30). My cell phone rings, it is the parent where Drake was..."Umm, we have a problem, he was accidently hit in the face with a foam bat while playing wiffle ball (WTF?, REALLY?, WIFFLE BALL!). It's not bleeding, but I think it needs stitches....HOLY CRAP....SO, Mark picks him and wants me to make the call about stitches. They meet us at his mom's and we pretty much decide it needs to be looked at. Well, urgent care closes at 9:00, guess what time it was, 8:59...We decide to head back to Lebanon and the emergency room. To make a kinda long story short, the doctor looks at it and tells us it is not soo bad, he can glue. We are thinking, sweet! Drake is excited, no stitches. Then we tell the Dr. that he is playing a baseball tourney this weekend (He is in full uniform because it was required to be worn to the varsity game, not sure why, but anyways!) the Dr. asks what position, uh, catcher....well, that changes things. The glue needed about 24 hours to "set" and if he didn't want to play bench warmer, then he need to be sutured. Again, to make a long story short, he ended up with 4 stitches in his eyebrow. He was really good though, did not cry and took it like a man, I think he had more anxiety over the thought of getting the stitches than actually receiving them.....We ended up leaving the ER after 10:30.........

Saturday morning, he is fine, a little swollen, will probably end up black and blue, but he played 2 great games. He even threw out a runner in each game trying to steal 2nd!! He also now has the nickname scarface. He just thinks he looks sexy. Definintely not the shy one! "GRRR, BABY!!!"

Needless to say, I have had about enough excitment for awhile. Drake has 2 more games tomorrow, for sure, possibly 3. Gunner has 4 games this week and then he is done, for the season and I am majorly stressing about the quilts!! I do believe there was more I was gonna say, but I am kinda tired and I think my brain is not functioning like it should.

Hope everyone has a good Mother's Day, I hope you are feeling better Mom and make sure you take it easy!!!

All's well that end's well, I am kinda hoping for a boring day tomorrow :D

P.S. And to top it all off, I got to go spend $120.00 on piggie food for chewie jr!!